Popular Rhetoric is a collaboration between political journalist James Galley and data visualisation and interactive engineer Joshua Rayman. 2016 saw two events that many said would never happen: The UK voted to Leave the European Union, and Donald Trump was elected President of the United…
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Philip Hammond announces that Letting agents will be banned from charging tenants letting agency fees “as soon as possible”. During his Autumn Statement speech, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, officially announced the widely expected plan that Letting agents would be banned from charging…
Cost of Brexit: Figures revealed today show that Brexit is forecast to hit the economy to the tune of over £50bn. In the aftermath of the Autumn Statement, journalists, academics and economists poured over the figures from the OBR (Office for Budget Responsibility). It became…
R&D to be getting an extra £2bn by 2020/21 and innovation and infrastructure to get £23bn investment package over the next 5 years. During his Autumn Statement speech, Chancellor Philip Hammond announced a whole new package of £23bn for investment in innovation and infrastructure with…
Updated Over the period of the EU referendum and its aftermath I did live reports for both 580 CFRA and CTV in Ottawa, discussing UK politics, the referendum, the result and the new Prime Minister, Theresa May. My two appearances on CTV Ottawa: http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=898163&binId=1.1487308&playlistPageNum=1 http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=910030…
This series of articles examines and fact checks some of the Vote Leave and Britain Stronger in Europe arguments for voting to Leave or Remain in the European Union. For a short summary of both sides’ arguments look here. Vote Leave Claim: Turkey in the…
This series of articles examines and fact checks some of the Vote Leave and Britain Stronger in Europe arguments for voting to Leave or Remain in the European Union. For a short summary of both sides’ arguments look here. Britain Stronger in Europe Claim: We…
This series of articles examines and fact checks some of the Vote Leave and Britain Stronger in Europe arguments for voting to Leave or Remain in the European Union. For a short summary of both sides’ arguments look here. Vote Leave Claim: Immigration into the…
EU referendum and voter registration A condensed summary of this week’s PMQs, with voter registration, workers rights, and lots of questions about the EU referendum.